Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their way past the reviewing stands of judges, who choose the winner. A total of 43 escolas de samba are taking part this year, and the larger ones, like the Estacāo Primeira de Mangueira-last year's champion, named after a stop on a suburban rail line-bring 7,000 participants into their act. While the poor flood into the limelight, the rich and the middle class either leave town or amuse themselves at exclusive balls. Individual tickets for the Municipal Theater Ball, the poshest of them all, run to $50, a box for eight...
Travel has always been a problem for Hefner, who speaks no foreign languages and got so nervous ("Call it womb sickness") on his only previous trip to Europe that he fled back to Chicago after a week. This time he plans to do it right. Moving along the production line at McDonnell Douglas Corp. is a $5,000,000 "stretched" version of the DC-9, already painted black...
Higher totals, however, do not tell the whole story. The profit gains were in inflated dollars, which have less purchasing power when plowed back into raw materials, expanded inventories or new plants. Some companies also made their profits look better by changes in accounting methods, notably to straight-line depreciation procedures, by which equipment costs are distributed over a greater number of years. Items...
...boom, but results were still uneven as the industry continued to be hurt by competition from imports. U.S. Steel reported earnings of $253 million, seemingly much better than the $172 million of the year before. But the gain was entirely attributable to the company's switchover to straight-line depreciation; otherwise, its profit would have only been $94 million. Accounting changes also contributed to profit increases at Inland Steel (up 44%), Bethlehem (21%) and Republic Steel...
UPSIDE BREAKOUT FROM A BOX tells technicians that a long stalemate between buyers and sellers, which has kept the stock's price in a constricted area, has ended with the shattering of the "topside resistance" line and a victory for buyers...